CVE-2023-37491 (GCVE-0-2023-37491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-08 00:46 – Updated: 2024-10-22 19:40
VLAI
Title
Improper Authorization check vulnerability in SAP Message Server
Summary
The ACL (Access Control List) of SAP Message Server - versions KERNEL 7.22, KERNEL 7.53, KERNEL 7.54, KERNEL 7.77, RNL64UC 7.22, RNL64UC 7.22EXT, RNL64UC 7.53, KRNL64NUC 7.22, KRNL64NUC 7.22EXT, can be bypassed in certain conditions, which may enable an authenticated malicious user to enter the network of the SAP systems served by the attacked SAP Message server. This may lead to unauthorized read and write of data as well as rendering the system unavailable.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-22 19:40 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
sap CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 117 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SAP_SE SAP Message Server Affected: KERNEL 7.22
Affected: KERNEL 7.53
Affected: KERNEL 7.54
Affected: KERNEL 7.77
Affected: RNL64UC 7.22
Affected: RNL64UC 7.22EXT
Affected: RNL64UC 7.53
Affected: KRNL64NUC 7.22
Affected: KRNL64NUC 7.22EXT
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.